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the islands and seventeen new species are credited to him by C. 
Miller in Linnaea, 1874. The next and most extensive collec- 
tion made during Spanish rule apparently was that obtained by 
A. Loher, chiefly in northern Luzon, who began his collecting in 
1890. r. Loher was, and very likely is still, a druggist in 
Manila who made a number of trips to northern Luzon especially 
for ferns and mosses. His ferns, some 270 species, were named 
by Christ, but the mosses remained si unstudied. Dr. Bro- 
therus finally determined some fifty sp 
Since the American occupation a nae many collections from 
various parts of the islands have been sent in to the Bureau of 
Science in Manila and have been determined by Dr. Brotherus. 
These collections embrace some 375 species, of which about 160 
are said to be endemic or nearly 43 per cent. 
My own collecting in the islands extended from November, 
1903, to de 1905. The principal regions visited were as 
follow. Lamao river and Mt. Marivales, 3,800 feet 
sigue: Pe across the bay from Manila. Baguio and ens 
5,200 feet altitude, about 150 miles north of Manila, and 
Santo Tomas, 8,000 feet altitude, some 10 miles from ae 
It was in Baguio, by the way, that a fire, while I was temporarily 
absent, burned up the hotel in which I was living and destroyed 
my entire eee outfit, all the mosses of some two months’ 
work, s about one half the other collections. This 
seer te a = to Manila for a new outfit, obtaining which I 
returned and remained in the same region to the end of the year. 
A short stay in Los Bafios on Laguna de Bay early in 1905 
ended my collecting on the island of Luzon. I next went to 
southern Mindanao collecting for some time in the mountains 
a few miles back from San Ramon, a former penal colony of the 
boanga. m this point, I traveled eastward some 250 miles 
to Davao, a town near the head of the Gulf of Davao, collecting 
along the coast for a distance of some fifty miles southward but 
chiefly at Santa Cruz and on the slopes of Mt. Apo, about Todaya, 
some 6,000 feet elevation, the mountain itself attaining a height 
of 10,000 feet. On the way back to Manila a short stop at Jolo 
